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Prevent Gmail From Emailing Under the Influence
mikesd81 writes "Google has developed 'Mail Goggles,' a Gmail add-on that makes sending email from Gmail more difficult during certain times (which you can set). If you have Mail Goggles installed, it will force you to answer a series of math questions before sending out any new messages. You can adjust the math difficulty and times this option is in effect. If you get any of the questions wrong, Mail Goggles will say, 'Water and bed for you. Or try again.' Of course, if you set the math settings too high, you may have a tough time solving some of those problems in under 60 seconds, even when sober. Then again, if you're sober, you could just turn Mail Goggles off and hit send on that impassioned letter to your ex-boyfriend/girlfriend or that flame to your boss."
The difficulty is sort of disappointing. Even on the hardest setting, it asked, for example, 9x10 and 9x4.
Virgin Mobile in Australia offers a similar service - call them up and they'll blacklist all calls to a given number from your phone until 6am the following morning.
2. e-Bay goggles.
2. Keep your computer in a cabinet or room with a combination lock. (Ever try to open one o' those babies after too many cups of liquid courage?)
3. AOL. (Your email will probably get lost anyway.)
4. Use an email address like v1agera694Ucheap@gmail.com or r0llexxBargains@gmail.com. (Your message will be flagged as spam and never read anyway.)
5. Don't email after more than two drinks. Ever, no matter how innocuous your message may seem.
6. Don't drink more than you can handle, especially on a regular enough basis to need something like this, you moron.
This is a hacked account, for which the owner can not be held responsible.
Mathematicians are somewhere between drunk lemurs and 7th grade drop outs when it comes to basic arithmetic. They can do complex partial differential equations and algebraic topology without any problems, sure. But the problem with a column of numbers is that they tend to add up to a reasonable sum even if you forget a few, and being a computational monster doesn't necessarily dispel absent-mindedness. If you ever attend higher level math/physics courses you will learn that the last step of solving any problem is to go back and fix all the coefficients. :p
When things get complex, multiply by the complex conjugate.